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# 8  
Old 08-22-2008
for FILE in `ls -1 *.log`
do
w1=`cat $FILE|grep -c "word1"`
w2=`cat $FILE|grep -c "word2"`
if [ ${w1} -gt 0 -a ${w2} -gt 0 ]
then
echo "$FILE"
fi
done
# 9  
Old 08-22-2008
try...
egrep -l "word[1-2]" *
or
egrep -l "word1|word2" *
# 10  
Old 08-22-2008
for FILE in `ls -1 *.log`
do
w1=`cat $FILE|grep -c "word1"`
w2=`cat $FILE|grep -c "word2"`
if [ ${w1} -gt 0 -a ${w2} -gt 0 ]
then
echo "$FILE"
fi
done
# 11  
Old 08-22-2008
Hi Palsevlohit

Thank U very much yaar ,its working fine.............

i have one more dout, is is possible to do using grep or find..........
# 12  
Old 08-22-2008
i don't think you need a script for it...
# 13  
Old 08-22-2008
Hi vidya

egrep -l "word1|word2" *

i have tried this one but its given all file names....its working like or command

but i want files that should be word1 and word2 , the above script working fine but if possible could you please send unix command....
# 14  
Old 08-22-2008
try this....
Quote:
grep -l "word1" *.log|xargs grep -l "word2"
 
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